[Core_Conservative]

Problem is - if they just took the computers - the only information they could get at is the internal disks - most organizations only hold the OS on the internal disks and all the "real" data is held on external disk. It really depends on what was really stolen - just the computers or the external disk too? - not enough information in the article to tell anything...

[Ed_in_NJ]

"This brought angry rebuttals from customs officers who claimed that the two mainframe servers held thousands of confidential files, including top-secret communications between customs investigators and the AFP and ASIO."

These folks seem to think something 'of value' was taken.